Perry v. the American Tobacco Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• non-smoking-insurance policy holders suffered only derivative loss when forced to pay higher premiums to subsidize increased costs of treating smoking-related illnesses
• dismissing for lack of proximate causation a RICO claim brought by insurance plan subscribers against tobacco companies under the theory that smoking-related illnesses increased insurance premiums
• affirming Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of complaint, including state law negligence claims, on remoteness grounds
• “Though foreseeability is an element of the proximate cause analysis, it is distinct from the requirement of direct injury.”
• “Though foreseeability is an element of the proximate cause analysis, it is distinct from the requirement of a direct injury.”
• “Though foreseeability is an element of the proximate cause analysis, it is distinct from the requirement of a direct injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).